Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-12-14
DEMPSEY WHIPS REAGAN.
The Latter Stands SOme Terrible Pound.
Ing for Forsy.five Rounds.

Dempsey and Reagan f0ugh' forty-nye rounds
with kid gloves under London prize-ring rules
Tuesday morning at place up the Hudson, 100
miles from New York, for 900 stake money and
the middle-weight championship Of America.
Only about twenty people witnessed the night,
The party LETT the city on tug at IL O'Clock Mon
day night, and reached the ground at 6:45 am
The selection Of the ground was found to be too
near the water, and It was found necessary to
move the ring higher up after eight rounds had
been fought The ring was the regulation size,
"A feet square. Dempsey won the choice OF cor
ners, and chose that which put the sun at his
by Denny Costigan and Billy Madden, and Bob
smith and Mike Costello looked after Reagan.
no IN sne dons
out In the second the referee had to caution Rea-
gan against fouling Both these rounds ended by
heavily on him In making a rush In the third
round Reagan accidentally spiked Dempsey in a
he reen Tnans on the LEFT Leg The bone could
sey's friends claiming the fight The referee how
ever, overlooked It. During the NTH round the
Dempsey partly out OF his corner still the men
kept on nghting and In the seventh and eighth
rounds the ring was covered but It only seemed to
at each other. Dempseys injured leg was tied up
In handkerchief and was In a terrible condition,
the seventh, but he would not, and the night Went
on Tor one more round, when the referee ordered
the men to shake hands and return to the boat
until the ring could be pitched on dry land.
The eight rounds had occupied eighteen
minutes. Reagan left the ring confident
OF winning. Neither han been badly hurt though
Reagan had been awarded flrst blood In the sew
enth round. The lighters on reaching the boat,
TOOK on their wet clothes and went TO bed. There
was SO much wrangling between the two sides
mat the referee decided TO move to another place,
which was done, and at 12:10 p. m the fight was
the new place Dempsey showed himself the better
wrestler, and II Was evident that Reagan had the
worst of IL In agreeing TO London rules. He fought
on, however. like Spartan, though at every clinch
dempsey threw aim. falling on him heavily. and
making him grunt with pain. In the tenth round
dempsey dempsey got In heavy blow on Resgans nose,
elicting great praise. The in-nghting OF both men
was OF the most scientific kind. Dempsey got in
another terrible left-handed blow on Reagan's
nose In the seventeenth round, and another In the
eighteenth. The last seemed to rattle Reagan and
In the clinch that followed Dempsey got his OPP
ponent's head In chancery and chopped It un-
mercifully. The blood was flowing down Reagan's
neck, but he fought on gameiuly. Dempsey was
having the best OF 1t right along now, and kept up
raw. When, In the twentieth round, Reagan
dropped to avoid another fall dempsey said sneer-
lngly: sect up and tight, you cur" This angered
Reagan, and the fighting became fast and furious.
Reagan sent in his blows right and left, and Demp-
sey retaliated. For several rounds Reagan kept
dropping to avoid cllnch and fall and Dempsey
sareastically remarked: 'You ought to have your
spikes on, referring TO his injured leg. In the
twenty-fifth round Dempsey sent In terrific blow
on Reagan'S eyes, following it up with another on
his lace. The next two rounds were marked by
rapid and effective pounding, Dempsey doing
great work. From the twenty-eighth to the
thirty-nfth round Reagan was frequently going
down to avoid Dempsey, whose umpire was claim
Ing fouls, and even urging him 10 hit Reagan
while the latter was on his knees. Dempsey said
he would not take the chances or losing on a
foul. Reagan made grand rally in the thirty
nfth round, rushing Dempsey to his corner,
put the latter was only taking his time TO
do MS man. The next three rounds were only
remarkable for the thumps In the RIBS Reagan re-
ce1ved In one OF them. The next three were warm,
especially the forty-first, when both men at tue
same instant fetched each other vicious blows
right and lett Dempsey had scarcely a mark on
him at this time, except that his left eve was
slightly swollen. Rounds forty-two forty-three
and fortyfour practically closed the battle Demp-
sey unmerciIuly pounding Reagan, whose lips
were pulled and his left eye badly swollen. lie
would not cry quit" and was voted as game a
man as ever stood in the ring. In the forty-flfth
round Bob Smith, at the solicitation OF Reagan's
friends, who saw their man had no chance OF win
hing, jumped into the ring and threw up the
sponge. The fight had lasted one hour and nine
minutes-eighteen minutes in the first and fifty
one minutes IN the second ring. 1t was over at
:O1 pm, leaving Dempsey still champion middle
weight Each man weighed at the ring 147
pounds. Dempsey Is twenty-five years old, ) feet
~ inches, and Reagan twenty-o years, feet
81 Inches Dempsey has won thirty battles and
hitd SIX draws He has never been defeated.
Reagan has only had two lights before This was
his third, and his first defeat